On a Humean regularity or counterfactual dependence account of causation, to bring it about that X occurs just is to be part of the sufficient causal nexus that makes X unavoidable.

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Counterfactual dependence account of causation(in philosophy of causation): The idea that X causes Y if Y wouldn't have happened without X—basically, if you imagine X not occurring, then Y wouldn't occur either.
Humean: "Humean" refers to ideas based on the philosophy of David Hume, an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that our knowledge comes from what we directly experience through our senses, not from abstract reasoning alone. A key Humean idea is that we cannot truly prove that cause and effect exist in the world—we only observe that one thing regularly follows another, and our minds make the connection. Hume's skeptical approach to knowledge and causation has influenced centuries of philosophical debate about how we understand reality.
Sufficient causal nexus(in philosophy of causation): All the conditions and prior events that must come together to guarantee that something will happen; a 'nexus' is just a connection or link.
regularity account of causation(Proposed alternative to the generative account, associated with Melnyk 2003)

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